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Subject: Re: 12th WCCC, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, July 4th-12th 200

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:52:45 12/03/03

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On December 03, 2003 at 09:02:14, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On December 03, 2003 at 02:27:55, Tony Werten wrote:
>>>
>>There's 1 more option. 11 rounds+speedchess could be easily played in 6 days
>>rather than the 9 it took now.
>
>
>Why do you insist on too many rounds in the first place?  Has nobody been
>listening?  11 rounds swiss is too many rounds for 16 players.  You might as
>well play a few more and make it round robin.
>
>MH
>

Yes.  4 more would do the trick.  or 19 more and make it a double-RR.

The last WCCC event I attended in 1989 was 5 rounds.  They slowly stretched
to 7 to 8 to ... to 11.  Yet the field has gotten _no_ larger.  I wonder if
it is a way of _forcing_ participants to drop large amounts of money in hotel
coffers?



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